Tech+Rationale

=Rationale for Technology in Education= toc



= //**5 Reasons Educators Need to Embrace the Internet**// = From Emerging Ed Tech
 * 1) Professional Development
 * 2) Business and organizations are already taping into this resources.
 * 3) It's here, we can embrace it, but we can't ignore it.
 * 4) The Power to Engage
 * 5) Internet tools are fun!
 * 6) Internet tools are interactive!
 * 7) Many tools are collaborative.
 * 8) Students use it already
 * 9) "Meet them where they live"
 * 10) You'll be speaking to them in their own language.
 * 11) It's not going away.
 * 12) It is only growing.
 * 13) It's already woven into the fabric of many people's daily lives.
 * 14) Businesses are looking for workers who understand the internet

= //**8 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers**// = From Teaching in the 21st Century Blog and originally posted from Andrew Church
 * 1) **Adapting**
 * 2) adapt to the curriculum
 * 3) teach in //**imaginative**// ways
 * 4) **Being Visionary**
 * 5) **//see the potential in emerging technologies//**
 * 6) **//manipulate those technologies//** to your needs
 * 7) look across disciplines and through curricula
 * 8) **Collaborating**
 * 9) leverage **//collaborative tools//**
 * 10) //**must be collaborators**//: share, contribute, adapt, invent
 * 11) **Taking Risks**
 * 12) surrender to students' knowledge and leverage that
 * 13) have a vision of what you want and //**what technology can do**//
 * 14) **Learning**
 * 15) work at staying current
 * 16) **//learn to adapt//**
 * 17) **Communicating**
 * 18) //**become fluent in tools that facilitate communication and collaboration**//
 * 19) //**facilitate, control, moderate, manage**// those tools
 * 20) **Modeling Behavior**
 * 21) model what we expect from our students
 * 22) model tolerance, global awareness, and reflective practice
 * 23) **Leading**
 * 24) be a leader!